HI YOU ARE LOOKING A GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY THIS SWORD WAS USED TO PROTECT

FOR ALL THOSE WHO LOVES TO COLLECT HISTORY SWORDS THIS IS THE ONE. THIS SWORD IS IN ORIGINAL CONDITION THE WAY IT LEFT THE BATTLE FEILD FROM A COLLECTION OFNEAR 100 YEARS. NO IT DONT HAVE A NICE SCABBARD AND I WOULD NEVER CHANG IT. MEN FOUGHT AND DIED BY THE APERANCE OF IT. TO MAKE OUR NATION A GREAT PLACE TO BE PROUD OF. GOD BLESS OUR NATION AMEN.

1833 dated Ames short sword - Artillery or Infantry

Manufactured: Springfield, Mass. Maker: N. P. Ames Year: 1833 Model: 1832
Size: 19 1/8 inch blade Condition:

This Model 1832 style sword is most often referred to as a \"Heavy Artillery\" or Artillery short sword. It is little known that this was also the N.C.O. (non-commissioned officer) sword from 1832 until it was replaced with a new regulation N.C.O. sword model in 1840.U.S. interlockingbelt plate. The cast brass hilt is of fish scale design and attached to the blade by top peen and 3 iron rivets through the handle. There is a nearly perfect seam on the pommel, grip and guardshowing a two piece mold was used for construction. The cross guard is clearly stamped on the underside with S. Huse / Newburyport and a single letters M . The top of the guard has the letter M. The wide blade measures 19 1/8 inch in length and 1.75 at the ricasso. It tapers and flairs to 1.77 at the widest point. It has a double fuller at the top both 3.68 in length and .42 in width. The lower fuller is 10 3/8 long and .43 in width. The blasé is marked with United / Stated / 1833 and the opposite side is stamped with a Federal Eagle over N. P. Ames / Springfield. The back seamed leather scabbard has a sheet brass throat and drag. The throat has a cast brass round frog stud .

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THIS SWORD WAS ISSUED TO J.A.J.B. AND IT APPEARS THAT THIS SWORD HAS BEEN IN ACTIUAL BATTLE. AND LOOKING AT SWORD AND SHAFT IF IS ACTUARIALY FRIGHTING TO THE APPEARANCE AND THE THOUGHTS GENERATED BY SIMPLY LOOKING AT IT. I CAN NOT EVENIMAGINE THE EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE, WITH THIS WEAPON OF WAR.